“In the career of a prodigy there invariably comes a time when it is compelled to relinquish being very clever for a child, and has to enter the business of life in competition with adults.” ChildrenCareersGeniusAdultsCompetitionCleverCompelledVery CleverProdigies Book:Some everyday folk and dawn Source: Some everyday folk and dawn
“As a rule, I try to avoid the French Quarter because of the crowds, especially Bourbon Street. But hey, some people love it. A great, wild, adult thing to see is the costume competition in front of the bar Oz on Bourbon early morning on Fat Tuesday.” PeopleTryingMorningStreetsFrontsAdultsCompetitionCrowdsBarsFatsHeyQuartersCostumesTuesdayEarly MorningBourbonFrench QuarterBourbon Street Author:Bryan Batt
“A new world of complex relationships and feelings opens up when the peer group takes its place alongside the family as the emotional focus of the child's life. Early peer relationships contribute significantly to the child's ability to participate in a group (and in that sense, society), deal with competition and disappointment, enjoy the intimacy of friendships, and intuitively understand social relationships as they play out at school, in the neighborhood, and later in the workplace and adult family.” WorldChildrenPlayFeelingsSchoolSocialEnjoyAbilityDealsFocusGroupsEmotionalAdultsCompetitionComplexesDisappointmentIntimacyNeighborhoodNew WorldPeersWorkplaceSocial RelationshipsPeer GroupComplex Relationships Author:Stanley Greenspan
“All adults who care about a baby will naturally be in competition for that baby.... Each adult wishes that he or she could do each job a bit more skillfully for the infant or small child than the other.” ChildrenCareJobsWishBitsBabyAdultsCompetitionWho CaresInfantSmall Child Book:TOUCHPOINTS THE ESSENTIAL REFERENCE Source: TOUCHPOINTS THE ESSENTIAL REFERENCE
“As an adult I generally feel this pressure to be thin, not from men, but from other women. As a silent or not-so-silent competition, a constant monitoring of who's thinner, comments about it - either compliments or veiled insults doesn't matter - it always drives me nuts.” MenFeelsMatterAdultsPressureConstantCompetitionSilentInsultComplimentCommentNutsMonitoring Author:Kate Christensen
“What do warriors do? They are in competition with everyone else. They measure their success and their value on the basis of who they are better than, how much they get, and so on. So, this is the time in your adult life when your primary emphasis is on goal setting, on getting someplace else, and on defeating other people.” PeopleValuesGoalAdultsBasesCompetitionSettingSettingsWarriorPrimariesEmphasisSetting Goals Author:Wayne Dyer
“I had a very specific goal and I think kids, more than adults, don't understand obstacles and competition. I wanted to be this one cartoon character [Porky Pig], couldn't figure out why I couldn't do it, other than living in the midwest.” ThinkingCharacterKidsWantedGoalFiguresAdultsCompetitionObstaclesPigsCartoonMidwestCartoon CharacterSpecific Goals Author:Bob Bergen